OFFICIAL TRAILER: AKA Doc Pomus @ The REGENT THEATRE [OCT_2023]

For one night only and at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 26th, Arlington's Showplace of Entertainment (The REGENT THEATRE) will screen the 2012 documentary, A.K.A. Doc Pomus . Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, its cast includes Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion DiMucci, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, B.B. King, and Lou Reed.

Paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, choosing the blues name Doc Pomus, and then as one of American popular music's greatest songwriters, creating "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las Vegas," and a thousand other songs. A.K.A. DOC POMUS brings to life Doc's joyous, heartbreaking, romantic, and extraordinarily eventful journey. He was the unlikeliest of rock and roll icons. Doc's was a life of disability and possibility, tragedy and romance, and some of the greatest music ever recorded.

There was nothing routine about Felder’s life, and there is nothing rote about this documentary, which is thoughtful, intimate, and filled with warm, candid recollections. If you love stories about the music business you’ll certainly be entertained, but AKA Doc Pomus is intrinsically compelling because it charts the life of such a singular man. He was definitely one of a kind.

The Drifters sang his, "Save the Last Dance for Me" and "This Magic Moment"; Dion and the Belmonts sang his, "A Teenager in Love" while The Coasters sang "Young Blood"; Elvis Presley sang "Surrender", "Viva Las Vegas" and "Little Sister" and Andy Williams sang "Can't Get Used to Losing You" and the list goes on...